Site name: Manchester Road (south side) open space by petrol station	Zone: Inner Zone
Land owner: ?	Date of survey: 25-Feb-00
Current management: Little, possibly scrub cut back from road.	Proposed management: Remove leylandii trees and scrub/rhododendron control. Maintain grass bank areas and/or re-seed with wildflower mix.
GA05	Date of Visual Survey - Aug 2004	Click map to see details

The ideas and possibilities outlined below are designed to help members of the local community as they think about what could happen on this site. Nothing is fixed and alternative solutions may well emerge over the coming decade - it is for the local community to decide and enable it to happen. Use the email button at the bottom right to volunteer to help and also to send additional information and ideas for specific sites

Visual Attributes - update 2004 This site runs to the south side of Manchester Road and behind the petrol station. A wide pavement separates the road from a stepped stone retaining wall, which supports a steep bank with housing at the top. This bank is covered by scrub, with several irregular rows of mature conifers and a dense thicket of birch, ash and sycamore above the petrol station. The tree planting is sporadic and unstructured, and appears quite messy from the road.

Safety The regular passing of traffic and pedestrians would provide some surveillance of the site, although the busy road would be a hazard for children. The bank would provide a secure place to sit, but views from there into the steelworks are undesirable.

Activities that the site supports at present A few desire lines show that people walk down the bank to the main road from the housing. Activities that could be supported in the future The proximity of the main road and the steelworks discourages use of the site for leisure, but some paths or steps could be created, formalising existing desire lines. Seating could also be provided at resting points.   Ideas for change This roadside strip is on a steep north facing slope. Increasing woodland cover would hold this bank back, so it is suggested that extra woodland planting would be beneficial.

Ecology

HABITAT TYPES FOUND ON SITE
	found 2002	aim by 2012		found 2002	aim by 2012
Amenity Grassland			Mosses and Bryophytes
Amenity Shrubs			Heath Land
Amenity Tree Planting			Wetlands
Amenity Flower Beds			Open Water
Amenity Hedges			Running Water
Rough Grassland	*		Cultivated/Disturbed Land
Acid Grassland			Bare Earth/Erosion
Marshy Grassland			Hedges
Trees Broadleaf	*		Walls	*
Trees Coniferous	*		Fences	*
Trees Mixed			Invasive Species
Scrub	*		Other (Please state)
Tall Herbs	*
Low Herbs and Shrubs (Native)	*
Amenity Bulb Planting

Stocksbridge SRB5 Greenspace Audit undertaken by Jim Flanagan for Sheffield Wildlife Trust - see their Community Action Handbook - full of good ideas for your local site

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